Long Jackboots Poems

The flames of the furnace (well-travelled by wind
slowly glazing the rags of gray women chagrined
at the sight of a hair fleeing tresses now thinned) 
sometimes billow like waves flooding naves through the night,
when the lightning...

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Part 1



Genecia, was an angry girl. Actually, Genecia was always angry, 24/7, 365 days a year. This was even reinforced by her own mother, who told her often enough
Genecia, you were born angry. Well, if...

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The Killing Field”

Ariana nodded, tremolo fingers,
and they ran across the killing field,
watching the steel-toed kite ascend—
a fleeting instant of triumph in the vacuum.
Josh scoffed as it dipped,
both caught in the pull of the abyss,
falling but...

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The Killing Field”

Ariana nodded, tremolo fingers,
and they ran across the killing field,
watching the steel-toed kite ascend—
a fleeting instant of triumph in the vacuum.
Josh scoffed as it dipped,
both caught in the pull of the abyss,
falling but...

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for Alan Painter

I have put into many ports
                           ...

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What would you say
If after this time
You reawakened this day
Long out of reach, your prime?

Would you still ride the horse of your forms
Bequeathed by Poseidon forever to be
Or from your eyes 
Would your reality emerge
Amidst...

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Before they silence my voice
Under jackboots and bone crushing dogs
I must set fort before dusk
As I am shielded 
By his gore
And crafted like Daniel
In the lions den
And Jonah in the whales gut

I must scurry to...

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Encage us we are of collective souls
Display us in prisoned wallpaper as ghouls
Send us into these sepsis tanks, in tin cans 
in torture dungeons, in faraway lands        ...

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There are tall ones, and short ones,
	Plastic ones, and leather ones.
	Some made with thick rubber soles.
	Others have soles full of holes!
	That's right! Boots! Dozens of boots.
	All types! Both ugly, and cute.

	Some are made for walking...

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The People will not forget me my convictions aren't uncharacteristic of me 
sympathy will be victorious and comfort me through my demise a requiem mass 
will welcome my day of death. Yes the suffering and...

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I’m lacquered again within your glowing effect
slinking in solitude until ego gets wrecked
by your magnanimous accord of splendor
quaking my resolve until I surrender.

Your laugh raises hairs along my prickly spine
to remunerate my comical design:
that quirky...

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The jackboots twitched suspended as they swayed upon the rope,

a sentence passed for hatred bred so shocking in its scope 

a stolen Sanskrit symbol used to purge what’s deemed unclean, 

the violent birth of safeguards...

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stopped in a crowd
didn't go with the flow
a brief second 
lifted my head
from the ground
from the neon
the chitty chat
all the glitter and glow
nonstop static
from madison ave.
from hollywood and vine
(especially up pennsylvania ave)
beating up 
my soul
abused...

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Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

Jovial Dr Jekyll played for juvenile Justice
                    a just jaspered journey
jokingly jumped...

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If you wander into your local school or preschool,
What are the odds of spotting even a single pair of gumboots,
And does it matter if you find none.

If you think it no,
Then fast forward to their...

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Splashing paint on a canvas
   Is that visual art?
   Does it constitute anything resembling design?

A huge swastika as a backdrop 
for an Israeli Jew crushing a 
Palestinian Arab baby under 
one...

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Where do the naysayers and wall-builders come from
Do they imagine their ancestors were spontaneously 
Dropped here one day, white of skin, superior of being
Did no one’s father or grandfather have to struggle
Through a winter, hungry...

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Take heed,  poet friends, you too, may be taken from your house.
Your money, your children, your lives maybe by our current 
government be sought.
Oh, those chilling words, “Your children are ours”
You must fight….your lives...

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And so the soup’s, coming to a boil 
Very difficult, not to get embroiled 
Rumour has it, Hitler’s on the rise 
Goose stepping, in poetic disguise 
Jackboots kick open, doors of rhyme 
Acrostics embed, swastikas...

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But you might not go
in exactly the way you might expect.
All you have to do
is think outside the box.
Step around obstacles
and open up your eyes.

The mind-police are everywhere now,
tapping your phone,
scanning your e-mails,
sifting your dumpster,
maybe...

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We're hit, we're hit!! serge!
The thing goes skrrrahh pap pap ka-ka-ka
Skibiki-pap-pap and a pu-pu-pudrrrr-boom
Skya, du-du-ku-ku-dun-dun
Poom, poom

The whole platoon has been cut off
The entire platoon has been wiped off
Company merit has fallen short of mercy

Thanks to...

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What i see is light
in this world of darkness.
what i find is glow
in this land of gloom.
what i feel is warmth
in this place of cold.

with the approach of night
the dark hides in the trees.
at dawn`s...

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Blackbirds singing in jackboots

Women freshening and powdering 
in the Men's room

A child is born without square eye's
and cell phone permanently attached
to it's inner ear

Traversing footsteps under a star
with both maternal loving married
parents expectantly awaiting a
cradle...

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Limericks crochetés: Once a cardsharp comic called Don Dump

Once a cardsharp comic called Don Dump
Made father’s money jump during slump
Dreamed of ruling this earth
Joined campaign (in) stand-up mirth
Made people laugh without using trump.

He played to...

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You!have turned a CROSS of simple hope into some kind of SWASTIKA joke!
you spurned sandals of protection into jackboots for vandals of destruction.
you were blessed by your pope!and the patriarch of jewish dope!
with those arabs...

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